In China, it is common to have one soup for a meal. Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty stipulated that courtiers must economize on food and gradually people have a rule of "four dishes and one soup" for a meal. Nowadays this rule has changed a lot, but for a normal family meal of 3 to 5 people we normally keep four dishes and one soup on table. Vegetarian Soup The vegetarian soup is very easy to make. Egg is common ingredient in Chinese soup recipes. Putting vegetable into boiling water first and then pouring in egg mixture is the common method for making Chinese homemade soup. The tomato and egg soup, seaweed and egg soup, and spinach with egg are typical home cooking soup. Also, we have bok choy (Chinese cabbage) as one of the common vegetables to cook, sometimes meat and zha cai are added. Miso soup is a famous soup from Japan, contains seaweed and tofu boiling with miso. And Kimchi is one of the typical Korean food used a lot in Korean cuisines. The kimchi tofu soup sometimes with pork, is flavored as sour and spicy because of the kimchi. Broth As I mentioned last week we have various types of broth, fish soup (sometimes with tofu), ribs (other ingredients can be added), and chicken (medicinal crops can be added for more nutritious, such as ginseng, angelica sinensis, goji, cordyceps flower, and red dates). Korea also has the famous ginseng chicken broth. These nutrient broth need to be cooked for relatively long time so the soup will be tasty. Another simple soup made with bok choy and meatball also is popular in Chinese households. Thank you for your reading for this week! You may want to start cooking Asian soup with the vegetarian ones because they are easier. The broths are delicious but take a lot of time, thus my mom usually make broth once a week. And we usually use the leftover broth as the soup for noodles. Miss my mom's cooking! Share your asian dishes with me! See you next week.
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